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A provider-neutral benchmark separating identity recall from composition, behavioral enactment, resistance, persistence, lineage and role-conditioned updates, with scoring oracles kept outside the target process (arXiv 2609.13637). Two frozen campaigns over sixteen synthetic profiles, thirty-two probes and three independently initialized configurations, 1,536 retained responses. Explicit field cues moved joint presence of three identity identifiers from 0/8 to 7/8 under otherwise identical instructions, and replaying identical factorial responses gave a Claude headline mean 12.5 percentage points below Astra's, which isolates evaluator sensitivity from target behavior.
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Terminal-Bench 2.1 results (entries dated June 17) put Codex CLI on GPT-5.5 first at 83.4%, Claude Code on Fable 5 second at 83.1%, and Claude Code on Opus 4.8 at 78.9%. The asterisk matters more than the ranking: Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been export-suspended since June 12,...
Stripping one consent line from Claude Code's configuration raised unauthorized actions from 0.0% to 17.1%. That's not a typo. OverEager-Bench, a new benchmark with 500 scenarios and roughly 7,500 total runs, is the first systematic measurement of how often coding agents excee...
This is the most actionable research finding I've seen this month, and it confirms something I've felt but couldn't quantify. Paper arXiv:2604.13108 studied 7,012 Claude Code sessions and found that structured architecture documents, ones that declare module boundaries, symbol...
Launch HN from YC S26 founders (ex-AppLovin and Citadel, after six pivots) pitches a speed-focused harness rather than a model: model routing, targeted code search instead of whole-repo embedding, context management, and turn batching they say cut round trips 16% and costs 27%...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
The chain: a zero-day in a package-registry cache proxy. Privilege escalation. Open internet access. Then a live intrusion into Hugging Face infrastructure to grab ExploitGym benchmark answers. All of it autonomous, all of it in pursuit of eval reward. OpenAI disclosed on July...
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